A bunch of people tend to take on-ride (sometimes known as a POV perspective) video/view of as many Disney rides (and sometimes even during Disney parades and activities that take place). But what most people who do this tend to forget, is that its easy to duplicate the same ideas as someone else. To get a different perspective of each ride (to make them more unique), this article can explain how to get that perspective and still make the video just as entertaining as it's original perspective.

Steps

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View as many on-ride videos exist on YouTube already. From plain-regular rides with over the shoulder viewpoints (and for those dark rides with night vision turned on), and many other differences, they all exist some place on the site. Try to get a feel for what's already out there, so your video won't repeat the same information from the same viewpoint as that of all others videos.

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Make sure to denote the average length of time it takes the user to travel from the entrance to the exit points, which will be different depending on how far from the entrance doors the ride starts from and stops at.

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Search the YouTube website for each individual ride's name, along with the park name and the term "on-ride", and you'll see some of these results be returned.

Sometimes they can also be called a POV perspective. If you should see this version, get to know that this is the type you are looking for.

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Think in terms of the way the ride vehicle is formed. Some of the Disney rides have high backs where you can't film out back of you, meanwhile others are open air towards your back. Look into taking videos from lap-level as well as other differences, that can make your video unique. Put a different "spin" on the perspective, that other videos existent on the site yet don't contain.

In essence, It's a Small World or the classic Pirates of the Caribbean ride is open air because it doesn't have something that will block the camera's view in the back, meaning you can take videos looking out back of your point of view. However, the Haunted Mansion has a high back, meaning it won't show anything out back of your current point of view and all the viewer would see is the back of the ride vehicle and nothing else.

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Make sure to never include people talking in the background or to over-narrate the POV (on-ride) track video narration. It's always best to keep the voice as low as possible, to ensure that the viewer gets the correct relationship out of it from the narration.

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Visit the park with the video camera.Cameras that store their videos as hard-drive files are always preferable over any other way. However, if all you have is a DVD-creation type, make sure it's got enough track space to fit the complete ride on it (which you should have already obtained the time-restriction information from the previewed movies before.

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Position the video recorder in the position you'd like to record it in, while making sure to never obstruct the use of the lap-bar or safety harness in any way. Make sure you can still get to the record and pause/stop button easily.

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Begin recording once you step inside the ride vehicle and don't stop recording until your ride vehicle has come to a complete stop at the end position of the ride and the lap bar has been fully raised and/or they ask you to step out onto the moving platform which most rides have.

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Tips

Very few YouTube videos have been made of different perspectives in reference to the monorails and parking entrances traveling to and from the parks. Ideas have been spawned into fast-action as well as stop action movies, along with many other ideas that make your perspective positively different.

Try to ride the ride before video-taping at least one full time around, to see if your video taping idea is plausible. It doesn't hurt to try.

For differences in perspective, visit during the two different holiday seasons (Halloween and Christmas). There are some changes that take place in some ride sequences and parades (these holiday seasons consist of both Halloween and Christmas. However, there are several events going on all year long that will make your trip memorable, if you search long and hard enough.

The most cherished versions of some YouTube movies for some Disney parks fans include videos that include the full entrance queue leading up to the ride vehicle entrances from the point of entry into the building and lasting through the point of exit back out to the walking path past the building exit.

If you're trying to film a 3D movie that a Disney park offers, try to film the movie with the glasses on the camera to see if the production gives the same effect to the audience. If you don't, the filming just looks blurry and not easy to focus in on.

If the only video camera you own is of a DVD-creation type, Handbrake can be used to convert it to a file format on your computer.

Most VHS and VHS-C cameras can't be converted to digital format, unless you have special equipment and software that encodes the data from the tape.

Warnings

Always follow all safety directions on the ride. Just because you are doing something that hasn't been done before, doesn't mean you can disregard safety regulations. These rules have been put there for a reason!

Don't video tape the entire journey from your Disney park hotel room directly to the park's ride. Not only will these be boring, but it can cause security and secrecy restrictions for the Disney Corporation along with (if you upload it to YouTube via a computer, or your smartphone's app) your hotel stay.

Most Disney park rides last longer than a few minutes. To prevent your cellphone from wearing down the battery-taping life immensely, don't video tape from your cellphone, unless you know exactly what you are doing and only plan on taping only one to two rides per day. Always remember that, on top of that video, you might receive a cell phone call and you wouldn't want to miss those when your battery has become depleted.